Transcription of Relevant Life Insurance
1 Relevant life InsuranceAIG Relevant life Insurance Key Facts2 What is AIG Relevant life Insurance ?AIG Relevant life Insurance is Insurance your business can take out to cover an employee against the financial impact of death or terminal illness - where life expectancy is less than 12 months, during the term of the policy. The cover must be placed in trust to ensure any benefit from the cover may be paid to the person covered or their beneficiaries. Our Relevant life Insurance has been designed to comply with the conditions for Relevant life plans as set out in Section 393(B)(4) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 and sections 481 and 482 of the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (ITTOIA 2005).If the sum paid out under AIG Relevant life Insurance forms part of your employee s estate, it may not be free of inheritance tax. Cover held by the trustees of a trust should not normally form part of the estate for Inheritance Tax purposes. However, we cannot advise whether a trust is suitable in any particular circumstances or give tax advice in relation to the use of trusts.
2 We recommend that you take professional advice before setting up a can buy AIG Relevant life Insurance ? AIG Relevant life Insurance is available to businesses registered in the United Kingdom, and can only provide cover in respect of British Citizens and those resident in the United Kingdom, aged 17 up to take out AIG Relevant life Insurance to cover an employee within the business - known as the person employer can be a sole trader (as a business with employees), a partnership, a limited liability partnership, a limited company or a charity. However, a sole trader (in their capacity as business owner), an equity partner in a partnership or a member of a limited liability partnership are not employees so can t be covered under Relevant life Insurance . An employee can include a single director of a limited company on International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading international Insurance organisation serving customers in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions.
3 AIG is the marketing name for the worldwide property-casualty, life and retirement, and general Insurance operations of American International Group, Inc. AIG life Limited is the life Insurance arm of AIG in the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Gibraltar. We provide financial and practical support for individuals, families and businesses when illness or injury threatens their life , lifestyle or livelihood. We recognise the value in the Financial Conduct Authority initiative of Treating Customers Fairly. We believe that if we treat you, our customer, fairly at all stages, then this will enhance our core values and lead to better service. Therefore we are committed to ensuring that we embed the principles of Treating Customers Fairly within every aspect of our business. This document gives you the key information you need to help you decide whether AIG Relevant life Insurance is right for you. It is available in other formats such as Braille, large print or audio.
4 Please ask if you need one of these formats. This document does not contain the full terms and conditions and exclusions of cover. Please also refer to your Cover Summary and Cover Details, which will be issued when your policy starts. This document is based on our understanding of the current laws in England and Wales and tax rules in the UK (different rules may apply in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Gibraltar). If you re thinking of taking out Insurance , you may wish to get expert advice from a financial adviser who can look at your personal circumstances and help you make the decision that s right for you. Welcome to AIGAIG Relevant life Insurance Key Facts3 The amount of coverWhen you take out AIG Relevant life Insurance , you decide how much cover you want for your employee. This amount is called the sum assured . This is the amount we pay if the person covered dies or is diagnosed with a terminal illness during the term of the policy. The maximum sum assured available under AIG Relevant life Insurance is as follows:Age of the person coveredMaximum sum assured, based on salary multiples17-2935 x income30-3930 x income40-4925 x income50-5920 x income60-7115 x incomeIncome includes salary, bonus, and dividends paid in lieu of salary plus any taxable benefit in term of the coverThe term of the cover is how long the Insurance lasts.
5 You choose the term of the cover. This can be any number of years between 3 and 50, although the policy must end before the person covered reaches their 75th birthday. Types of cover Level - with this cover the sum assured is fixed. Increasing - with this cover the sum assured increases each year in line with the Retail Prices Index (RPI) up to a maximum of 10%.Further information regarding these types of cover is available in section B1 of the Cover for your policyYour business pays the premiums for AIG Relevant life Insurance and the cost of the premiums is usually viewed as an allowable business expense. This is as long as the local inspector of taxes is satisfied they qualify under the wholly and exclusively rules as governed by HMRC. For example, the expense is incurred wholly and exclusively for the purpose of the business trade and is not excessive in the particular premiums will be guaranteed and will not change unless you choose increasing cover.
6 We will collect monthly or annual premiums from you by direct debit to pay for your Insurance until the date your Insurance ends. Placing your policy in trustTo ensure any benefit from the cover may be paid to the person covered or their beneficiaries, you, as owner of the policy, must place the cover in trust. You must do this at the same time as you apply for the cover. You can use a trust form which we have provided or one prepared by your own professional advisers. You must be a trustee, together with the person covered. It may also be beneficial to appoint a third your policyThere are many ways that you can change your policy to make sure that it is still meeting your employee s needs. You can increase the amount of your cover without providing further medical evidence if the person covered is 55 years old or less and: increases their income as a result of a pay rise or promotion; marries or enters into a civil partnership; has a child or legally adopts one; or increases the amount of their mortgage to buy a new home or to pay for home is a limit to how much you can increase your sum assured - it can t be more than the lower of 50% of the current sum assured or 75,000.
7 In addition you can choose to: reduce the sum assured; increase the term of the cover; reduce the term of the cover; stop and restart annual increases if you have selected increasing cover; or change your premiums from annual to monthly and vice options may not be available to everyone, for example if the person covered has a particular medical condition when the cover is first taken out. For more information, including further limitations, please see section C4 in the Cover does AIG Relevant life Insurance work?AIG Relevant life Insurance Key Facts4 Continuing the coverIf your employee leaves your business, there are two potential options to continuing the cover:(i) Transfer of ownership to a new employer; or(ii) Transfer of ownership to the employee.(i) Transfer of ownership to a new employer:If the person covered leaves the employment of the business owning this AIG Relevant life Insurance and goes to a new employer, the new employer can request that the Insurance continues.
8 This does not require further medical evidence or underwriting. The new employer must make this request within 90 days of the employee leaving the business owning this cover. Such requests will be considered provided premium payments are up to date. If we agree to this, the person covered or new employer must provide us with all details of the new employer and any other information we reasonably require to enable us to administer the cover and meet our regulatory and legal obligations. The previous employer should retire as a trustee (to ensure they are no longer involved with the cover) and the new employer appointed as trustee in their place. There must be at least two trustees appointed at any given time, one of which must be a person who is not the settlor.(ii) Transfer of ownership to the employee:The person covered can request to continue the Insurance in their sole name if they leave the employment of the business owning this AIG Relevant life Insurance . This will not require further medical evidence or underwriting.
9 Following notification that the business owning the cover no longer wishes to continue the Insurance , the person covered will have 90 days to request to continue the cover. Any such request will only be considered provided premium payments are up to date. The employee will become responsible for the payment of premiums. The terminal illness benefit will be removed from the policy and will no longer be available. The employer should retire as a trustee (to ensure they are no longer involved with the cover) and a new trustee appointed in their place. There must be at least two trustees appointed at any given time, one of which must be a person who is not the settlor. The policy will no longer qualify for some of the tax benefits associated with Relevant life Relevant life Insurance Key Facts5 AIG Relevant life Insurance only protects against events that happen to the person covered during the term of the policy. If something happens outside that term, they won t be covered.
10 The Cover Summary shows what is covered and for how will reduce the spending power of any benefit paid in the future. To help protect the cover against this effect, you can choose to set it up with a sum assured that increases each year in line with the Retail Prices Index (RPI) up to a maximum of 10%. If the policy has an increasing sum assured, the premium will be reviewed annually and will increase by a higher percentage than that of the sum assured, because the amount of the increase of the premium will depend on the age of the person covered and the remaining term of the policy at that you set up a cover with an increasing sum assured, the amount you pay will increase each year to pay for the extra cover. If you then change to a level sum assured, the premium will remain at the level it was when you made the change. If you restart the annual increase, the premium will increase the cover is not written in trust, the policy may not meet HMRC s definition of Relevant life Insurance for taxation purposes and your employee or their dependants entitlement to the benefits may be is no guarantee that the current tax position will apply in all cases or continue for the term of the cover.
